For Autoblog regulars on the market, you are in all probability already conversant in my ongoing Baggage Take a look at sequence. Properly, this may not be a kind of. The brand new extended-length 2023 Jeep Grand Wagoneer L is so colossal that my normal assortment of bags could be swallowed with nearly no effort behind its third row. Mainly, it has the type of cargo capability you’d discover in a two-row midsize crossover behind a third-row seat large enough to comfortably accommodate folks taller than 6 ft.
Fortunately, I occurred to be shifting final week, so having the Grand Wagoneer L fall into my lap on the final minute could not have been extra opportune. And we’re not speaking a couple of odds and ends right here. Nope, I used to be shifting workplace chairs, a desk, a crib, a excessive chair, wardrobe packing containers and different massive objects I initially moved in an extended-length Toyota Tundra (we moved into my in-laws for 4 months whereas our home was being renovated). In brief, in the event you want a much bigger SUV, I am afraid you will not discover one. For folks or cargo past this, your finest guess might be a Mercedes Sprinter.
Simply how a lot greater is the Grand Wagoneer L? Each it and the non-grand Wagoneer are a full foot longer than the non-L, together with 7 extra inches of wheelbase. That makes it 226.7 inches lengthy, or practically 19 ft, which is 1 inch longer than a Chevy Suburban. It is also simply in regards to the size of my total new driveway and a helluva lot longer than a Jeep Wrangler Limitless (see beneath).
The house behind the third row grows from 27.4 cubic-feet (which a daily Baggage Take a look at revealed to be the perfect in its class) to 44.2. Put the seats down and it grows from 88.2 to 130.9, or roughly the scale of a Manhattan house.
These seats are lowered within the Grand Wagoneer Collection III by useful buttons on the liftgate. The third row additionally goes again up on the contact of a button.
So what can all that house match???
Included on this assortment is a Residence Depot wardrobe field and a Cozy Coupe that match behind the second row. The plastic three-drawer set and collapsible storage crate (above proper) have been atop the folded second-row captain’s chairs, whereas my son’s large Britax automotive seat remained within the different. AND! Look how a lot managed to nonetheless match behind that wardrobe field and the Cozy Coupe. That may be yet one more plastic three-drawer set and collapsible storage crate plus my small blue roll-aboard bag and a fold-up Thule stroller. Good grief. This factor is mainly a black gap.
On my second run, the JGWL match a folded-up mini crib, its mattress, a small desk, a not-so-small canine mattress, a Stokke excessive chair, a Massive and Additional-Massive shifting field and yet one more plastic three-drawer set.
Now, as I used to be loading as much as the roof right here (as I particularly do NOT do throughout common baggage checks), this Grand Wagoneer L’s rearview digital camera mirror is an indispensable function. Above left is the view with the regular-old mirror and above proper is the view with the digital camera. The benefit is clear.
The common Grand Wagoneer already impressed with its house, however the L manages to utterly blow it away. As such, if you are going to get a Wagoneer, get the L. The value distinction is barely $3,500, and while you’re speaking about base costs round $90,000, how might that presumably matter? Get that additional foot. Moreover, the L will get the brand new, extra environment friendly and extra highly effective Hurricane turbocharged inline-six engine for 2023 whereas the common model sticks with the monumentally thirsty, old-school 6.4-liter V8 (the common Wagoneer has a 5.7-liter). In fact, I nonetheless managed to get 14.3 mpg versus the EPA’s 16 mpg mixed, however think about how crappy the previous V8’s mpg would’ve been with the identical utilization. The Wagoneer L will get a much better 20 mpg mixed but additionally 90 fewer horses.
So there, in the event you want an SUV to move all of your earthly possessions, there isn’t any SUV higher than a Jeep Grand Wagoneer L. Put that on a billboard.
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